Table 1. Number of fishes recorded at well sampled sites in the Greater Caribbean.

Site	No. fish species	Source
Alligator Reef, FL	517	Starck [12]
Dry Tortugas, FL	442	Longley & Hildebrand [13]
Bermuda	433	Smith-Vaniz et al [14]
St. Croix	400	Clavijo et al [15]
Barrier Reef, Belize	339	C.L. Smith et al [9]
Offshore Banks, Belize	293	C.L. Smith et al [9]
Oceanic Atolls, Colombia	273	Mejia et al [16]
Saba Bank	270	This paper
Buck Island Reef	262	Smith-Vaniz et al [8]
Mona Passage Islands, Puerto Rico	261	Dennis et al [7]
Flower Garden Bank Nat. Mar. Sanctuary, Texas, USA	240	E. Hickerson, NOAA, pers. comm., Dec. 2009
Navassa Island, USA	237	Collette et al [6]
Rhomboidal Cays, Belize	193	C.L. Smith et al [9]
Core Pelican Cays, Belize	168	C.L. Smith et al [9]
Peripheral Rhomboidal Cays, Belize	123	C.L. Smith et al [9]